No, that's correct. They...definitely don't have venom in my world, though. You've got winged draconids that need venom in your world? You'd think the fangs and claws and wings would be enough...
As for size, they can be anywhere from about 25 to 30 feet from snout to tail tip. Wingspan about the same. Flight capability is pretty good, though ground takeoffs can be a little rough; they're less speedy and maneuverable than pegasi, but much tougher defensively. All wyverns seem to belong to just one species, but you get some distinct regional variants at times - most wyverns bred in captivity are pretty interchangeable with each other, though. You mostly only se the variants in the wild populations. They're not domesticated, but they're not too hard to tame when they're raised from eggs. In some countries, selective breeding for certain rare colors of wyvern happens, which is probably the biggest variation you'll see among tame wyverns.
In terms of behaviors, they're surprisingly laid-back when raised from eggs. Much more so than pegasi, which can be...'high-strung' is an understatement. It's a mistake to think of pegasi as horses with wings - they're more like horse-sized geese with hooves. Which should tell you everything anyone would ever want to know about them, honestly. But anyway...wyverns in the wild behave a bit like hawks, or owls. They fly around, spot prey from above, then drop on it, ideally before their prey even realizes they're there. They don't tend to hunt things much smaller than gazelles. They're pretty patient in their approaches; they know how to exploit things like blind spots and the position of the sun to make them harder to see. They're probably more intelligent than you'd expect from a big lizard, maybe comparable to a horse.
You mostly find them in warmer regions of the world, at least the wild ones. Tame wyverns have spread even to colder countries, but you don't find much in the way of wild populations there; without human care and shelter, it's hard for them to stay warm enough to stay active enough to support themselves.
Supposedly wyverns used to hunt humans, but it's been ages since then. They're weak to magic, and their wings are pretty vulnerable to arrows, so once humans developed those enough to defend ourselves, we stopped being prey they really wanted to risk themselves against. Humans are probably the biggest threat to wyverns, as far as that goes...pegasi mob them sometimes, but they have a hard time doing any real damage to wyverns. It's usually just territorial behavior.
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Date: 2021-02-11 03:53 pm (UTC)As for size, they can be anywhere from about 25 to 30 feet from snout to tail tip. Wingspan about the same. Flight capability is pretty good, though ground takeoffs can be a little rough; they're less speedy and maneuverable than pegasi, but much tougher defensively. All wyverns seem to belong to just one species, but you get some distinct regional variants at times - most wyverns bred in captivity are pretty interchangeable with each other, though. You mostly only se the variants in the wild populations. They're not domesticated, but they're not too hard to tame when they're raised from eggs. In some countries, selective breeding for certain rare colors of wyvern happens, which is probably the biggest variation you'll see among tame wyverns.
In terms of behaviors, they're surprisingly laid-back when raised from eggs. Much more so than pegasi, which can be...'high-strung' is an understatement. It's a mistake to think of pegasi as horses with wings - they're more like horse-sized geese with hooves. Which should tell you everything anyone would ever want to know about them, honestly. But anyway...wyverns in the wild behave a bit like hawks, or owls. They fly around, spot prey from above, then drop on it, ideally before their prey even realizes they're there. They don't tend to hunt things much smaller than gazelles. They're pretty patient in their approaches; they know how to exploit things like blind spots and the position of the sun to make them harder to see. They're probably more intelligent than you'd expect from a big lizard, maybe comparable to a horse.
You mostly find them in warmer regions of the world, at least the wild ones. Tame wyverns have spread even to colder countries, but you don't find much in the way of wild populations there; without human care and shelter, it's hard for them to stay warm enough to stay active enough to support themselves.
Supposedly wyverns used to hunt humans, but it's been ages since then. They're weak to magic, and their wings are pretty vulnerable to arrows, so once humans developed those enough to defend ourselves, we stopped being prey they really wanted to risk themselves against. Humans are probably the biggest threat to wyverns, as far as that goes...pegasi mob them sometimes, but they have a hard time doing any real damage to wyverns. It's usually just territorial behavior.